[Boston Herald] Palestinian supporters gather at a rally in Harvard Yard in Cambridge on Oct. 14.
TV host Mike Rowe said that eight years ago, he was switching the news channels on his television and saw several college students setting fire to the American flag and dancing around a pile of burning flags. They were telling reporters in interviews they were disgusted with Old Glory and "fearful" of the flag.
"It wasn’t lost on me in the moment that all of these events were happening at what is considered the best of the best elite universities across the country," Rowe told me. Among supposedly non-elite students, though, the situation wasn’t and isn’t as bad.
Rowe said it didn’t take long for him to figure out why those "elite" students drew those conclusions about Old Glory: The idea of associating fear with the flag came from the very people who were supposed to be instructing these privileged students.
Rowe said the evidence was crystal clear when Jonathan Lash, then the president of Hampshire College, chose not to assure the students that no country offers more liberties to their people and therefore there was nothing to "fear" from the flag. Instead, he spoke up in ways they understood to validate their fears.
"Lash actually removed any traces of the American flag from the campus and said in a statement that removing the flag from the campus ’will better enable us to focus our efforts on addressing racist, misogynistic, Islamophobic, anti-immigrant, antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and behaviors,'" Rowe explained.
Lash, a former Peace Corps volunteer, federal prosecutor, Harvard graduate, and president of a Washington-based environmental think tank, left the college in 2018. Hampshire College, under Lash in 2015, was one of the first elite schools in the United States not to accept SAT scores from applicants, in part because Lash said SATs were strongly biased against students of color.
Rowe said that if people are shocked by the blatant antisemitism among college students and by the students’ clear lack of understanding of history, they haven’t been paying attention to the ethos of (supposedly) elite universities for at least two generations.
Higher education, for decades, has been trending not liberal but radically left. Phillip Magness and David Waugh wrote earlier this year in the Independent Review that 60% of faculty in universities across this country identified as "hard left."
Magness and Waugh wrote that while the modal college professor has been at the political left of the public since the 1960s, it wasn’t until very recently that this overall skew obscured an underlying stability in the political composition of faculty.
Their data showed it was in 2001 that faculty majorities went from liberal to hard left and now are nearing a supermajority in the academic world.
It is not lost on Rowe that the two places of higher education where you don’t see campuses erupting in violence and destroying the safety of Jewish students are trade schools and community colleges.
"In 2016, I was feeling very proud to have a scholarship fund that was earmarked for trade schools when everywhere I looked, I saw people burning the flag at elite universities," Rowe said, adding, "Maybe it happened then, or maybe it is happening now, but I looked, and I couldn’t find a single incident of a trade school or community college burning the American flag."
"These schools simply don’t go there," he said of the trade schools and community colleges nationwide whose certificate programs and two-year degrees are designed around filling this country’s skills gap.
The typical financial aid package is huge at Harvard University, in which pro-Palestinian rallies have cost the school financial support from alumni. The total budget for a student this year is $80,600, with federal scholarship amounts set at $64,500.
Over 55% of the students attending Harvard received federal grants or loans.
Rowe said if you want to throw a little gas on the fire of the psyche of the American sitting at home, shaking her head, wondering what these students are up to, "Just remember you’re paying for it."
The Department of Education tallies show there are nearly 4,000 colleges and universities across this country with 40% of their students holding some type of job while attending school.
In contrast, there are just a little over 1,000 community colleges and 7,407 trade and technical schools as of 2022 with 80% of those students employed while attending school in the former.
Rowe said that when the protests at the elite universities started to unfold after the Oct. 7 massacre, he wondered what seemed so familiar. "And the answer isn’t because it’s familiar in terms of bad behavior. It was familiar because it’s another thing that never happens at schools where people go to learn a skill."
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So, basically, this guy Rowe says they're riouting because they like rioting - any approved cause will do.
Which, brings us to a question - why this particular cause: "solving the Jewish problem"; gets university authorities approval?
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Harvard and Hampshire, like almost all colleges and universities, are government subsidized unregulated hedge funds and credentialing monopolies that indoctrinate students to be statists and anti-Christian bigots as a side venture.
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Cause they have gone full Marxist. Just alloy the allegory of the frog and scorpion with Western Civilization as the frog and Marxism as the scorpion.
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no +k12 grants. only +k12 loans for vocational schools. graduate pays loan back from wages. also in-person voting on paper ballots hand-counted.
would probably fix a lot of whats wrong today.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... is again underlining its systemic moral and political rot. Since Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... 's Oct. 7 atrocity, an assault of murder, rape, and kidnapping which took approximately 1,200 Israeli lives, the U.N. has utterly failed in its core mission to preserve international peace and justice in service of sovereign nations.
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UN is a terrorist organization - part of their (from Taliban to IRA) support structure.
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Brookings: "Trump eliminated US funding for UNRWA and the US role as Mideast peacemaker," Hady Amr
September 7, 2018
Editor's note: Through President Trump’s announcement that his administration would no longer fund UNRWA, America has further written itself out of the process of peacemaking in the Middle East, argues Hady Amr. Trump has sent an unmistakable message to the Palestinian people: He callously disregards their most basic needs. This post is adapted from a piece originally published on The Hill.
As if to boast, in a call to mark the Jewish New Year, President Trump told American Jewish leaders: “I stopped massive amounts of money that we were paying to the Palestinians.” Trump added he told the Palestinians, “We’re not paying until you make a deal.” On the face of it, such an approach may seem like a typical Trump negotiating tactic, but the decision is so misguided that in addition to having dire immediate consequences, it will haunt the United States for years to come."
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Defunding portions of the UN is misguided. Defunding it all and kicking it out of the US is more rational, based on the inherent levels of evil and corruption.
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11/27/2023 9:54 Comments ||
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[Jpost] Israel experienced a preemptive attack upon its nation, which was the worst massacre in its history by Iranian proxy Hamas, carried out with Iranian arms and funded by Iran. It opened Pandora's box, forcing Israel to fight a war for its survival, knowing that without it, there would be many more attacks like October 7 or worse.
The new twenty-first-century wars are proxy wars, but they are also media wars.
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Oh look, another course of action that benefits Israel and harms Americans. How unusual.
Use the three billion dollars we give you every year and start your own war, Israel. We don't want any more of out kids dying for a cause that's not their own.
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Praying Mantis was limited to proportional damage. Since then, Iran has operated mostly through proxies.
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Made in America, tested in Japan. We know the bomb will work, lets use it in Iran!
We should have bombed it into glass in 1980. Now our children are going to have to fight them.
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11/27/2023 10:03 Comments ||
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Obama and Biden bomb Iran with pallets of cash.
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#5 You DO know the only reason that Iran had the Shah in the first place is that the CIA overthrew their democratic government in the 1950s, right?
These things don't just come out of nowhere. The Iranians didn't just decide one day to take hostages like that. It was an act of revenge, like Israel is doing to Gaza right now.
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Ulimble Forkbeard2690? You do realize this is a fairly educated crowd (barring myself, of course) and we know the history of the coup, Shah, Khomeini, Embassy, terrorism, killings, wymyns beaten for not wearing a Hefty Bag. What do you know? Not a bunch, it appears.
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Frank, he is clearly misunderstanding Iranian history.
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